Meaning

2 senses

  1. An acidophil of the adenohypophysis.

  2. An endocrine cell, located in the islets of Langerhans of the pancreas, that synthesizes and secretes glucagon.

Translations

1 languages

Forms

plural: alpha cells
Singularalpha cell
Pluralalpha cells

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Word family

1 related words
Relatedbeta cell

See also

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